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Losing weight should't be expensive or complicated. The ideal process would reduce our stress while driving results. Dr. Z weaves together his perspective on physical and mental health and the powerful way that fasting can connect these two spheres of our lives. Let's move toward total wellness and a holistic vision of health and healing. Learn more at SimpleFasting.com
Have you ever noticed when you're getting hungry?
Maybe you're trying to do some fasting space
in your life and then it feels like stomach.
It isn't just part of the body anymore.
It's become the boss. It's calling the shots.
It's telling you what to do.
Saying don't boss me around.
We don't want our stomach feeling like a demanding boss,
but that is sometimes how it ends up.
Have you felt that way?
We're gonna lean into that today.
Today I say going to be the appetite CEO.
Going to fire that bossy guy.
Try to put it in its place.
Talking about how to stop letting the stomach run the life.
It's just not its place, right?
But it can happen. Absolutely.
And it is very common.
I'm talking about how to become the CEO of our appetite.
Take charge of it, and we're going to be drawing insight
in that regard from this book,
getting toward the very end of it.
The mountain is you and the mountain is me.
We're on the journey together.
We're moving in a direction of health
and what they call self-mastery.
Doesn't that sound good?
Love that Brianna waist.
In this book,
she makes a point about self-sabotage and about overcoming it,
and she asks this pivotal question that we're going to focus on.
I want you to think of it.
Listen, what would the most powerful version of myself do?
Just love thinking about this.
When your stomach is screaming at you, but you set out
with an intention, you said, I am trying to lose weight.
I'm trying to open up some space, or I'm
just trying to do one small thing like stop a snack
that was coming in.
That wasn't.
But then we are feeling it in that moment.
If you're following with me on the channel, you know
I'm all about grace in a space.
We're never forcing ourselves in a space.
Nothing has to be done.
The most important thing to do find peace and contentment
in a moment, never punishing our way to hell.
So all these attitudes are not there.
Nurturing our way to health.
I love all that.
But then we did the session also earlier in the week
about the human spirit,
the willpower that we try to do everything we can
not to have to use it, but that actually it is a real force
and that we can also see that it is incredible
and we can strengthen that muscle
to not that we can never use it,
we just try to use it as little as possible.
But when we need it, when we decide, hey, I am the boss here
and we are doing something new and we are taking a step.
This is what a CEO does, right?
A bold, visionary, incredible
CEO said, let's take a step, you know.
And why is a CEO doing it?
You know,
why does the CEO say like, let's take a bold, visionary step.
It's like a couple things.
CEOs want to make money,
which means CEO is trying to have success for a company.
And what is success for a company mean if it doesn't mean
providing a better product or service?
So if we're the CEO of our life, in our health
and we're trying to move forward in health, right?
Isn't this
what is the product that this CEO of the appetite is saying?
We want to develop a future
product and service
which is like our life, our way of being, our state of health,
more health, more energy, more vitality,
less struggle, more flow.
This is the sort of thing that a visionary CEO is like.
We got to think outside of the box here.
Like stuff hasn't exactly been going the way we want.
Perhaps. Maybe it has.
We say got to keep the ship sailing, but if we say we're trying
to shift course, I say fasting as a space.
If you are in a metabolic space,
it's something that can help you shift course.
Absolutely.
It is a practice with two layers, a superficial layer
and a very deep layer as deep as you need it to be.
Superficial layer is very simple.
We can just describe it in one sentence.
We're just taking a period of time
where we would have been eating and we're abstaining from food.
Okay.
Very very simple.
Okay. Does not mean easy.
I say simple but not necessarily easy can be easy.
And if we find a place of ease with it, we say incredible space.
Lean into it.
If it's not easy, we gather here in a problem.
Solving space is like gathering of the CEOs who come together,
share the struggles, brainstorm, and move toward it.
So think about it. Think of the last time you experienced it.
You were planning on having a space without eating.
Maybe it's maybe you're not a practitioner of fasting,
but you say, I had lunch
and then I was going to have dinner,
and then we head into that space and got hungry.
Stomach starts growling and say it's I want something to eat.
Do you remember the last time
and try to get into that mental space?
So think of that last time.
Maybe you are planning on fasting.
You're in a fasting space but stomach starts getting bossy
and then you broke the fasting space
that you're going to have early.
So they can't. Not my choice to do it now.
I've done this many times.
Full disclosure I think of favorite quotes
that I have, like perfection not required.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good.
All of these things is perfectly acceptable
when you're fasting to stop whenever you want.
This is what is the nicest thing.
Everything open, no rules, nothing required.
So I'm not setting up any type of dynamic,
you know, intentionally to say like,
oh, fasting has to become some sort of rigid and dogmatic thing.
Think about the best CEOs.
Aren't they flexible? Right? Aren't they?
They're not totalitarian.
You know, things. That's what I say.
And maybe someone disagrees.
Look, I'm just I'm a doctor.
I'm not a CEO. I'm not.
You know, someone says, oh, look at Elon.
You know, he's he's runs a tight ship, I guess.
Anyway, we're in a health space, okay?
We are trying to nurture our way to health.
And we're finding this line, though,
where we're trying to take an edge
from somebody like that, bring it to our life when we need it.
This is what I say when you are in that space
the last time, who is really calling the shots?
This is the thing.
Is the stomach calling the shots
or is like our most powerful version
of ourself, our strongest self,
what we might call the true self.
Are we really calling the shots? See, this is the thing.
If our best choice is really to say, hey, this is not flowing,
this is not feeling like my best space,
we're going to call this see then that's beautiful.
But the thing that we want to have is
we want to be building that muscle of the human willpower.
Use it as little as possible, but say, okay,
what would the most powerful version do?
And if it was a different choice? That is the spot.
That's where we really want to get our finger on it today
and point it out.
Think of all the thinking.
Actually, I think pretty much all the thinking
that we are doing on the channel
is to get actually into this one type of moment,
because this is the the real crux of the whole issue.
You know, if we are in a weight loss space,
we are trying to move forward in health
and there are barriers and obstacles to it.
We are trying to solve that situation in a big situation, right.
If we're to try to boil it down like we're trying to create
flow in the body, where energy is flowing
out of the body and less in, and there are decisions
that have to be made to do that,
and we have to get into that space.
So ultimately, don't we have to make different decisions
like we do, you know, if we want to change.
And so the process of growth, you know, the process
of moving in a better direction is a process of change.
Change of any kind can be very difficult.
That's why we try to create a calm, gentle,
thoughtful space and we take all the pressure off of it
by taking timelines off of self,
taking expectations off of ourself.
And then now we're dialing in, trying to give ourselves
the most powerful mindset that we can have.
Not from someone else. Right?
Not from internet guy telling you a thing, right?
From getting into our own head space,
try to meet the most powerful version of ourselves, right?
Because we can see there are different versions.
Pat says last time, late in the day,
very busy, tired dinner, preparing dinner for others
favorite foods, starving.
Perfect storm.
I cannot envision a more difficult scenario.
Cannot. Right?
That is.
Absolutely.
The perfect storm.
And it's okay.
Tons of grace and compassion for yourself in that space, right?
And favorite foods and a hungry and and people
that you're cooking for and all these things is like,
you know, enjoy that moment.
And then if it's your best choice next time, learn from it.
Yeah. Love, love thinking about that. But very difficult.
Yeah, yeah.
Here's a space to that.
We could dive weigh in on meds
that have to be taken in the morning with food.
I, I won't get into it too much in here
because I'm not giving medical advice.
You know, here I'm sharing these thoughts.
But, you know, in my history of fasting
and fasting consultation, I've interacted
with thousands of people who are practicing fasting.
And this is actually a key issue.
And, you know.
Many, I would say 80 to 90%
of medication issues that make fast and difficult
can be dealt with in a way that works on it, you know?
So I'd say let's touch base privately,
anybody I'd do some private consulting.
I got doctor Z method links in the description.
You can connect with me there.
And I help anybody troubleshoot a medication issue
that's limiting fasting.
I've done a tremendous amount of it.
Did you ever see the movie?
I think I mentioned it before.
It's called Everything Everywhere All at Once.
And in that movie
we're seeing many, many different versions of the same person
as kind of in this wild sort of multi-dimensional space.
And, and this person in different versions of themselves,
you know, which is just made up,
you know, some movie, but, you know, in some versions
they became a powerful leader.
They became a martial arts master, a famous singer.
And in the version of reality that
that we were in, in the movie, they were like
the very worst version of themselves
that never accomplished anything.
And they were
they were just stuck in every area of the their life and oh man.
But it ended up being so beautiful because that's the space
where they actually found love and connection.
You know, it's so beautiful.
The movie wasn't really beautiful if you saw it.
Very violent, but also very beautiful too.
But that's what I'm saying.
She actually got to meet the most powerful version of herself,
most powerful versions,
and she learned from them and took from those visions
or other experiences into her life.
And this is the real type of thing that I want us to do today,
just to imagine it.
Can you imagine sitting down and having a coffee with the most
powerful version of yourself, and what would they say?
Yeah. Thinking about. That space.
Let's dive into this passage here.
Listen to this.
This is from a section entitled
What would My Most Powerful Self Do today?
The first step to becoming
your most powerful self is to literally envision that person.
Don't take yourself out of your current context either.
Begin to ask yourself,
what would this person do right now with this day?
How would they respond to this challenge?
Like have a visioning process?
Do you see it right when you were getting into that space?
You see maybe in the space like we talked through,
like we're cooking for family and it's delicious food
and you're hungry and all these things maybe the best space.
You say eat it, enjoy it.
But what if the the CEO says, you know what?
We've played this loop quite a few times.
Like let's try to make it through it.
And if that's the best choice because like, maybe it is,
you don't have to do it every time.
You could flow through the space and not do it,
but it would have to have a very powerful mindset.
It probably would take the very most powerful mindset.
And if that's your choice, actually vision it and see
the most powerful version of you responding to the challenge.
How do they move forward?
What thoughts
would they be thinking that would help them to flow through it?
And can we grab on to some of those?
What would they be feeling in the moment?
I say maybe they're feeling the same thing actually,
but maybe it's the thoughts really
that are sending them in a different direction.
Your most powerful self needs to be the CEO of your life,
and we don't.
And if we take it out of our whole life,
we bring it right here just into the appetite.
We say we're going to make that
most powerful version of ourself, the CEO, just to this project.
Right? Just of controlling the appetite.
This person needs to be making the managerial decisions.
They need to be governing everything else.
They are the editor in chief and you are working for them.
How I like that thought, right.
See, if we're struggling in a space,
you see, we're not quite getting the task done.
We're not at like CEO level. We are not.
You say, operating in our most powerful space.
Envision that person, say, I'm just going to work for them.
It's still myself, right?
Most powerful version of myself.
Given a few orders here, they're saying, hey, you know what?
They're going to help us out. They're nice. Right?
They're like, you know what?
You really got to do this, you know,
and like follow some orders from your self.
You know, for a bit.
I say I'm loving that thought.
I've actually come up.
I've done that a couple times in my life.
I think where I just came to that space,
I said, man, what would
I don't think I framed it this way, but I did find it helpful.
They finished this section.
Once you have a clear image of what
your most powerful self is like,
then you need to evaluate what habits, traits,
and behaviors are actively holding you back
from fully embodying that person.
This is like an idea of really mentally,
emotionally stretching us into that space.
Envision the person.
Envision thinking, feel what it is like to be them
and see them making their choice in that decision.
Like if we say, okay, this space, our most difficult space,
like you said,
if it really is our best choice to flow through it
because we can start envisioning it, right.
You can envision now I say no to this.
I stay hydrated, I drink some water or some sparkling water.
I make a tea,
I have an extra coffee, whatever the appropriate thing is.
And I just lean in and I'm
living vicariously
and I'm seeing the joy and the things happening.
And, you know, spaces like that, there can be social pressure
and you can just say, oh, I laugh it off
and I say, isn't this interesting?
I see, I think it's a powerful model in a space to,
you know, for other people
to make a powerful choice of saying no and to have
people see that it's okay actually to open up spaces.
It's okay to stretch ourselves.
It's okay to do something difficult.
It's okay to have priorities in our life that aren't comfort
focused where you say, hey, this isn't
this is like a big step for me.
It's okay to ask for help on things.
CEO, right is a type of person
who makes difficult decisions,
who makes decisions that aren't always popular, right?
And also as a type of person
who knows their limitations and will ask for help,
they will lean in to every place
where they have experience
that is beyond and every place where it is.
They have a deficiency they'll outsource, right?
And they will get help with it, and they might do it
discreetly
so that they keep looking good, you know, and we can do that.
Maybe that's a little side conversation like,
hey, look, I'm having a bit of difficulty with this decision.
Could you give me a hand? Could you help?
You know,
these are all the kind of conversations that you can have
with friends and family in a space like that.
And I say they're really good conversations to have.
I know a space like that.
So often I get into conversations with people like, well,
what about kids?
And what about young people?
And is it, is it what kind of role model is it?
And, you know, I personally think that when you are sharing
your honest expression in an open way that it can be very,
very positive, you know,
think about the society, think about the struggles
we are having with metabolic health.
And we don't have a lot of fasting role models in this society.
But what an incredible gift that this process
can be to so many people
when we realize it's just nothing to do.
It's just the work of fasting is the work of doing nothing,
and of training the system to be stronger and handle it.
And even in the most difficult circumstance,
I think building up, bringing a lot of compassion into it to
this is what I tried to say in
that space is a very, very difficult space.
And can we bring a lot of compassion into ourselves?
We're trying to find this line
between the edge where we say, okay,
we're bringing in the strength and power of a CEO,
and then the compassion and space
and realizing the difficulty of it.
Think about this scenario.
I'm kind of thinking it like this.
I'm picturing, okay, especially like this.
Okay, tired at the end of the day, man.
Picturing part of the section in here
that I haven't that I kind of skipped over, that I haven't gone.
Maybe we'll just talk about it a little bit.
Is just talking about the inner child.
And inner child as a concept is a psychological concept.
They say, you know, even in there
and they're quoting different psychologists.
Okay, not really an inner child, okay.
It's a metaphorical concept.
It's talking about how, especially when we were younger
and we were vulnerable, and we are trying to find our way of
how do we navigate this space, that we encounter
situations where we're hurt or injured, especially emotionally,
and that we can carry
patterns like that forward call like the emotional child.
I saw once. Have you ever seen this?
You know, you're at the checkout line in the grocery store
or like a target or something, which increasingly
I call like a gantlet where you have to like in order
to get to those checkouts, you've got to make it through
like giant racks full of candy bars and sodas,
and it's all lit up.
And I'm just like, this is perverse, I think.
But I was standing in one of these lines once and like the
the lung, like a toddler is like in the.
Seat of the cart.
And they're, you know, they have clearly had a long day.
They're not happy.
They're like screaming and they're trying to grab
like a candy thing or something like this.
Have you seen this? And.
Think about this experience
like when a little kid is crying for candy, okay.
They're not trying to sabotage.
They're not trying to.
Even for themselves. Right?
They're just feeling overwhelmed.
They're feeling uncomfortable.
They're looking for some sort of comfort.
It's like they see the perfectly lit, the bright thing.
And wouldn't it help in the very short term? Right.
You give the kid the candy bar
and the checkout, they're going to stop screaming, isn't there?
Like the temptation? So think of that space.
Like, have we felt like that?
Haven't we all been that in that scenario, whereas even
when we were younger was like stress and overwhelmed?
And doesn't that sort of space stay with us?
What I think about I think some of the times
when we're in a struggle like that, this book would suggest, oh,
that we're we're like acting out
and feeling parts of this inner child
that was looking for comfort, maybe didn't receive it.
Can we give a gift? This is where they go in there.
Can we go back?
Can we reach back, give a gift to the inner
child,
give them the space to let them know that things are okay.
Let them know that there's love and compassion
coming from you, right?
But now also say, isn't it the wrong move to give the kid
the candy bar, right?
It might help for five minutes,
but 20 minutes later is going to be much worse, isn't it?
The sugar rush is going to be on,
and then the crash and everything is going to blow up.
Not the healthy choice.
So this is the sort of thing if we if you like this analogy,
I think it can be a compassionate way
to go find compassion for our inner child, our inner self,
whether we just call that our emotional self.
Now, if you don't like the inner child analogy, but coming in.
It's like you don't let the children run the boardroom.
You know, if we're trying to become the CEO,
we see this dynamic that is happening.
We can be compassionate to people,
but we can also say, no, be compassionate to ourself, but say no
in this scenario and really set it if that's our best choice.
So I think that is there.
Say we're not letting the stomach run our life,
not letting the appetite.
We don't have to be a tyrant with it, but
we can have the power of the human spirit with it,
and we can make the call,
and then we can use all of our best thinking
and effort to put us into that space.
And. Yeah, that would be my suggestion.
And then I could. Good CEO right?
They equip themselves
to make the decision in the best way possible.
They give themselves every tool, they bring in
every type of person that can support them to do it.
So appetite CEO might go watch The Hunger series on my channel.
I got the Hunger series.
I talked through a whole series of different perspectives
on it, on eliminating processed foods,
getting ourselves into a low carb eating space
so we're not driving insulin cycles,
creating the ideal environment for ourselves,
both physically in the environment.
So we're not getting cues on hunger emotionally.
We're having conversations with people so that they can help us
and our frame of mind on hunger
and filling our mind with every positive thought,
understanding that hunger comes in a wave and will pass.
And then it's not a never ending linear process.
So that Hunger Series has a lot of great thinking
ending presently with the fasting aids.
And so there's another thing.
Bring a fasting aid into a situation.
If you're cooking up some beautiful food for people
you know, have a broth, something that you can enjoy
with people, broth is like the fastest comfort food,
you know, it's
like it's very minimalist, it's warm, it's comforting.
And see, is that the bridge
that you can get you through the most difficult space?
And then another video I want to put on the end of that one
is just taking care of our microbiome,
because so much of the factors that are coming in
actually made endogenously meaning inside of us
by our bacterial brethren that are within us.
And there is this virtuous cycle of satiety.
I think I've got an article, simple fast income,
a virtuous cycle of satiety.
So maybe that looks like getting some fermented foods
in our life, like sauerkraut and kimchi and kefir
and all of this sort of stuff, so that we can get
some good guys in there and help to center the appetite.
See, the CEO is saying, where are the resources that we need?
Like, where are we deficient?
How do we get every single piece lined up
so that we have everything that we need
to move forward in this critical area, like we're seeing?
Isn't this the space
when we're we're trying to make our most powerful choice
in our most difficult decision space,
where we reach a breakthrough.
So I want to break through for you and and is it
actually a path where you can get into that space
if it's the best choice,
and make the critical call
that the most powerful version of yourself would make?
So I hope these are empowering thoughts for you.
Literally empowering.
Think of a powerful CEO
and that you are becoming it in your own life
for this specific challenge that you need.
If that is overcoming a food craving or some sort of space
and share your experience as you work on it,
come back into this space.
Do you find it helpful?
Do you make it through it all?
Not way. It is all good.
We're having a human experience.
We're striving after something good and something beautiful.
And it is a practice.
So fasting space, like any health practice,
whether it's riding the bike,
running around, focusing on some sort of diet,
all of these things are practices
we do our very best every day,
and then we learn from our experience.
We don't judge ourselves harshly about it in any fashion.
We just say, hey, I did my best here.
This is the experience I had.
And that is another step on the practice
that is building us up into some
future that we can't see yet, but we are just trying to manifest
in the best way that we can.
All right.
Those are my thoughts of the day.
Don't let the stomach run the life. Take control.
Be the CEO.
I'm grabbing the coffee. I'm happy to hang out a little bit.
Let me know.
Do you have other thoughts, questions, reflections on this?
Happy to extend the conversation if you would like.
If you are here on the replay.
So nice to have you with me.
We can keep the conversation going in the comments.
Share your thoughts and reflections and.
I'd be very happy to have ongoing conversation with it there.
And do you have suggestions of ways
we could advance this thinking in future episodes?
I'd love to do it.
I would love to do it.
Fasting space the entire thing to me, a giant conversation
and I love the idea.
Build the conversation in a broader fashion.
I have many books
and thinking that I am going to continue bringing
and invite you to continue on the journey
with me and make it a collaborative process.
That's what I like the most.
Collaborative journey toward health.
That's what I want with it.
Setting our most powerful intention
and not letting anything get in the way of what we really want.
Like, what are the things that we determine to be
the most important,
and we're going to move powerfully toward them.
All right, everybody, thank you so much for being here.
I wish you the very best in this day,
and I will look forward to talking with you again soon.